| Title: | FDDI - The Next Generation |
| Moderator: | NETCAD::STEFANI |
| Created: | Thu Apr 27 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2259 |
| Total number of notes: | 8590 |
Hallo,
An article in LAN MAGAZINE, December 1993, pp. 115-126,
titled "FDDI: Not Just for Fiber Anymore" has a table of
10 companies' shipments of FDDI Centers to the US (Units),
and Digital is #1 for 1991 and 1992! (Source is Dataquest,
June 1993).
The highest three are:
Units shipped Market Share
1991 1992 1991 1992
Digital 886 5500 27.7% 28.9%
Synoptics 776 3740 24.3% 19.6%
Cabletron N/A 3640 N/A 19.1%
Isn't this good news for Digital? I think we should spread
this as wide as possible in our organization. At least
we have some products we can feel proud of!
Best Regards,
Fung Siong
Digital Indonesia
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1155.1 | Good news, ways to increase growth suggestions. | 35405::MCELWEE | Opponent of Oppression | Thu Nov 25 1993 05:06 | 18 |
Field Support calls for FDDI interoperability problems are becoming
more frequent which means that we definitely have market share.
These calls often result in consulting $ because we are finally
collecting for our role in diagnosis when the problem is (usually)
another vendor's, cable fault, etc.
Keeping customers happy with our FDDI products and service should
be enhanced by improving firmware update distribution methods
(Internet?), fixing the #^%$ NDU licensing, and setting a tools
list standard for Field offices. Our region burns man hours locating/
leasing test equipment much the same as we did with Ethernet years ago.
We have a similar tools & skills needs with T-1, T-3, ISDN, X.25,
etc. Solving problems at the lower layers can be profitable, and is
essential to our ability to provide integration services IMHO.
Phil
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